The poems in Samuel Hazo’sSexes: The Marriage Dialoguesare concerned with how husbands and wives confront each other at life’s various intersections—sometimes casually, sometimes profoundly. It is at these points that the most interesting differences in gender reveal themselves. From the first poem (“Banterers”) to the last (“Ballad of the Old Lovers”) Hazo’s attuned ear picks up quotidian conversational exchanges, but the words are never window dressing. They hint at inevitable insights and misunderstandings born out of conjugal love. Each poem is a vignette of the moving and surprising moments that are married life.
The poems in Samuel Hazo’sSexes: The Marriage Dialoguesare concerned with how husbands and wives confront each other at life’s various intersections—sometimes casually, sometimes profoundly. It is at these points that the most interesting differences in gender reveal themselves. F
SAMUEL HAZO is the author of books of poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, and the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh. He is the translator of Adonis’sThe Pages of Day and Night(Marlboro Press, 2000). His book of poemsJust Once: New and Selected Poemsreceived the Maurice English Poetry Award in 2003. His latest books areThe Stroke of the Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations(2011) and a novel,The Time Remaining(2012). A National Book Award finalist, he was chosen the first State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1993, and he served until 2003.
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